Islam Rediscovered
7. Discovery of Islam
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pages, the reader will find a thorough analysis of
the historical and political reasons for the tragic
phenomenon of the alienation of Islam as predicted
in the
Hadith
.
WHY ISLAM ALONE
We seldom hear the adherents of other religions
complaining
about
their
faiths
being
misunderstood. For instance Hindus, Buddhists
and Christians do not hold that their respective
religions are badly understood. One reason is
that they do not mix their religions with
communal politics, and do not generally try to
advance their own worldly interests in the name
of their religions — as present-day Muslims are
doing on a large scale.
One who studies Islam, directly from its sacred
scriptures, is astonished to find that the original
Islam is totally different from what it is now
generally held to be. Other religions are known to
people as they are; hence the need to rediscover
them does not arise. The problem of
misapprehension applies therefore exclusively to
Islam. There is a great need to study Islam from its
